· Private foundation
Friedlander Family Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $516k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION | $185,000 |
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO | $100,000 |
| HILSIDE TRUST | $50,000 |
| ARTWORKS | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING BOULDER COUNTY | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $50,000 |
| UNIV OF CINTI FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MERCANTILE LIBRARY - CAPITAL DRIVES | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATER CINCINNATI | $30,000 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $25,000 |
| GREEN UMBRELLA DBA CROWN CINCINNATI | $25,000 |
| LA SOUPE | $25,000 |
| COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS THEATER OF CINCINNATI | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $565k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $543k · revenue +63%
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2020–2024 · $212k · revenue +59%
- TMTHE MORTON ARBORETUM5× · 2020–2024 · $107k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- CACINCINNATI ASSN FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIREDone grant, 2021 · $28k
- WPWATER PROSPER INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- GOGROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Soteni Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 157 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSIDE TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARES OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Millstone Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Earthward Bound Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Friedlander Family Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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